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NetApp and VMware Help Transform IT, Make Cloud A Reality

New Joint Cloud Solution Allows Customers to Invest Resources Back into the Business to Drive Innovation and Manage for the Future

SUNNYVALE and LAS VEGAS, Nev.-August
29, 2011 -Cloud computing has quickly surfaced as an
important IT initiative as more organizations evaluate alternatives
to help manage the pace and growth of their business. To help
accelerate customers' transition to the cloud, today at
VMworld® 2011, NetApp and VMware announced VMware cloud
infrastructure and management on NetApp®, a new joint solution
that enables organizations to evolve to a secure cloud computing
model at their own pace, gaining greater flexibility and efficiency
without needing to rip and replace their existing
infrastructure.

News Highlights

The solution is documented in a best practices guide and helps
customers evolve from a virtualized environment to a secure
private, hybrid or public cloud infrastructure using proven,
integrated technologies that automate and centrally manage cloud
environments, resulting in increased productivity and optimized
service levels.

VMware cloud infrastructure and management on NetApp simplifies
the transition to a standardized, automated service-delivery model
that scales with the business, allowing service providers,
government agencies and universities, and enterprises to invest
resources back into the business so they manage for the future and
drive innovation throughout the organization.

The solution helps customers evolve to the next stage of the
virtualization journey by creating a secure cloud infrastructure
using proven, integrated technologies that automate and centrally
manage cloud environments, resulting in increased productivity and
optimized service levels.

The cloud infrastructure solution combines NetApp's flexible
and efficient Unified Storage Architecture and comprehensive set of
storage and data management capabilities built on Data ONTAP®
with VMware's recently enhanced
cloud infrastructure suite to deliver seamless integration of
cloud management, provisioning, and backup and recovery
capabilities based on existing virtualized shared IT
infrastructures. This powerful combination enables organizations to
transition to the cloud at their own pace, without the need to rip
and replace their existing infrastructure. Core features include:

Secure isolation and control of multiple tenants (applications,
organizations, clients, users and business units) on a flexible and
efficient shared IT infrastructure.

NetApp and VMware have a globally staffed, 24x7 direct contact
path between the VMware and NetApp support organizations and
leverage a Unified Support Lab where support engineers can
reproduce customer environments, diagnose issues, and rapidly
resolve customer cases. As customers continue to deploy cloud
infrastructure environments, they want to be certain that their
technology partners will continue to provide rapid and efficient
support. The cooperative support process enables customer problems
to be worked to completion in a seamless manner, with technical
support engineers communicating directly with each other to resolve
issues efficiently.

Supporting Quotes

Daniel Morgenstern, manager, Windows and
Virtualization, Franklin University IT
"Franklin University is committed to providing our students with
the educational resources and tools they need to succeed, and our
IT infrastructure is a critical foundation to ensuring that
happens. With VMware cloud infrastructure and management on NetApp,
we were able to move to a secure private cloud that offers
unprecedented flexibility to expand in any direction, fluidly move
resources, and quickly provision services. As a result, we've been
able to optimize our resources and focus on delivering the best
education to our students."

Paul Giobbi, president, Zumasys
"Zumasys is focused on increasing the availability and
affordability of cloud computing solutions for our customers. Using
the cloud infrastructure and management solution based on VMware
and NetApp, our customers can dynamically scale their applications
and automatically self-provision server and storage resources.
Customers can choose to keep some applications onsite, some in a
public cloud, and some on the Zumasys platform with portability
between locations. With this solution, we can provide a more
flexible and affordable path to the cloud for our customers."

Chris Cummings, vice president of Products and
Solutions Marketing, NetApp
"As enterprises look for ways to accelerate their businesses, they
recognize that the decisions they make now affect not only how they
compete today but also how prepared they are for the future. For
many, there's substantial upside to evolving from a virtualized
environment to a cloud architecture. NetApp and VMware are
delivering a secure, integrated solution that allows customers to
build on their virtualized environments without having to rip and
replace their current IT infrastructures. This saves invaluable
time, money, and productivity that they can reinvest back in the
business."

Gary Green, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances,
VMware
"VMware and NetApp have built a strong relationship to deliver
innovative solutions that help customers derive value from existing
IT investments while preparing for the datacenter of the future.
With this new solution, we're taking another step forward in
helping joint customers virtualize more of the IT environment -
including their most demanding business-critical applications - to
continue building the foundation for cloud computing."

Availability
The VMware and NetApp products that make up the VMware cloud
infrastructure and management on NetApp solution are currently
available and can be purchased directly from NetApp and VMware, or
through the companies' worldwide network of value-added authorized
resellers, distributors and systems integrators. For more
information, please visit www.netapp.com/us/solutions/infrastructure/vmware-cloud-infrastructure.html.

About VMware
VMware (NYSE: VMW) delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure
solutions that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of
all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform -
VMware vSphere® - customers rely on VMware to reduce capital
and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business
continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2010 revenues of
$2.9 billion, more than 250,000 customers and 25,000 partners,
VMware is the leader in virtualization which consistently ranks as
a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered in Silicon
Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at
www.vmware.com.

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